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Also check Deep Impact Homepage and check out "Helpful links". There are some good animations there.

1 posted on 07/01/2005 7:10:25 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi

To: Zuben Elgenubi

It looks like the impact site will be viewable at impact time only on the West Coast.

WAAAAAAH!

2 posted on 07/01/2005 7:14:50 AM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

To: Hot Tabasco; Dog Gone; eccentric; nuconvert; LasVegasMac; Larry Lucido; sushiman; Ladysmith; ...

Comet impact Ping (this weekend)

4 posted on 07/01/2005 7:37:46 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi

To: Zuben Elgenubi; Howlin

There will be a live thread on Sunday. Keep an eye out for it.

9 posted on 07/01/2005 8:31:48 AM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)

To: Zuben Elgenubi

During its final moments, the impactor will take the closet images of comet's surface ever. The kinetic energy that will be released by the collision is estimated to be the equivalent of nearly 5 tons of TNT. However, this will only change the comet's velocity by about 0.0001 millimeters per second (0.014 inches per hour). The collision will not appreciably modify the orbital path of Tempel 1, which poses no threat to Earth now or in the foreseeable future.

Uh huh.... sure.

Until Marvin gets REALLY ticked about his vacation cottage being obliterated and comes a'hunting!

11 posted on 07/01/2005 10:48:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)

To: Zuben Elgenubi

Ominous warnings From http://www.matter-antimatter.com/humanity.htm

Scientists have discovered that comets are natural sources of antimatter. The announcement was made at April 2002 joint meeting of American Physical Society and American Astronomical Society. ... On July 4, 2005, NASA plans to collide a 350 kilogram spacecraft into the antimatter Comet Tempel 1. The spacecraft's impact with the comet will result in a 15,000 Megatons explosion that will fracture the 125 billion metric ton comet into millions of fragments. The antimatter fragments will disperse into solar orbit and periodically collide with earth for years to come. The antimatter collisions with earth will produce tremendous explosions (equivalent to millions of Megatons of TNT), and will destroy life as we know it. Armageddon will have come. NASA should notify the public of their plans to avoid colliding the spacecraft with the Comet Tempel 1. NASA should also inform the public about the opportunities to use antimatter to benefit humanity and turn the Star Trek Dream into Reality.

(it's amazing what valuable information is on the net, yet nobody really believes it...)

13 posted on 07/03/2005 5:08:39 PM PDT by Cvengr (<;^))

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